let me be the one who sets your feet upon a road where you've never been....

Tons of new music the past month or two and I am just now getting time to listen to a few of them. I keep neglecting the new for the familiar... When you find something you like, it's hard to break away, right?

Anyway, I can't tell you how great it is to hear Ray LaMontagne's Gossip in the Grain cd. It's a definite change from most of the stuff I've been listening to lately. I still haven't managed to listen to REK's Marfa show he has up for download on his site. Nor have I listened to Todd Snider's Peace Queer more than one time through. I keep going back to RK's Bulletproof, or RK in general and RRB's latest with a little Rollercoaster thrown in.

The one thing that surprises me is that I cannot stop listening to PG's single, "Let Me". I can't tell you how good it is to have PG back in my ears. Whether the song is from 2 months or 10 years ago...it's been getting a lot of play on the ipod. I finally broke down and bought the single off Amazon yesterday. Remember what I said about familiarity earlier?

I started a new book this week, The Betrayal: The Lost Life of Jesus. It's a novel written by two archaeologists. Sounds thrilling, right? Here's the description from Amazon:

There is an alternate story of the life of Jesus. One the early Church fathers found so menacing they outlawed the books that documented it, ordered them burned, and threatened anyone found copying them with death. International bestselling authors and award-winning archaeologists Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear put more than thirty years of exhaustive research into this fascinating novel.

In A.D. 325, Brother Barnabas is a student of the ancient holy texts. These books paint a portrait of Jesus that is radical, heretical, and irresistible. In the writings of Mary Magdalene, Phillip, and James, Barnabas finds clues to a secret he must protect at all costs. But the Ecumenical Council of Bishops has just declared his cherished books "a hotbed of manifold perversity." Emperor Constantine has decreed that the documents must be burned and that anyone found copying them will be executed as a heretic.

Barnabas's monastery is attacked. Brother Barnabas flees with his trusted companions, but they are being followed, for the True Church cannot allow them to find the most sacred place on Earth. In fact, it will do anything to stop them...

The endnotes alone are worth the read...which is where I learned some new facts.

It was great to see everyone last weekend! I don't have much planned for this weekend besides dinner and a night out for my cousins' birthdays. Something interesting usually happens, we'll see what happens this year.

I hope you have a great weekend!